Social Psychology Exam 1 Rutgers Questions With Correct Answers

Social Psychology Exam 1 Rutgers
Questions With Correct Answers


Social Psych - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the scientific study of how
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individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context
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Milgram Study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Power of persuasion study-
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shock test. Will people listen to someone else in a situation where they
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are harming someone? Were asked questions- shocked if wrong.
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Social Context - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-something that is not real or
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present but still has an important effect on individuals. Ex. Iraq
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stampede


Proximal Influence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-peoples reactions in
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immediate situations-social norms of the situation-current thoughts
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Distal Influence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-implied factors-not
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immediately present-cultural upbringing-evolutionary factors
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Social belonging & grades - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-study- tell students
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that things will get better- after 4 years GPA went up
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,Sociology focus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-groups of people
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Social psych focus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-individual
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Social vs cognitive psych differences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-cognitive
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psychologists study the brain-learning, reasoning, memory.. mental
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processes. social psychologists are also interested in this, but on the
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social information aspect, HOW they learn
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Social vs cognitive psych intersects - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-social
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cognition is becoming a new concept
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Social psych vs clinical psych differences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-clinical
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psychologists study people with difficulties or disorders, social
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psychologists are not interested in disorders but how people think feel
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and act specifically.
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Social psych vs clinical psych intersects - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-overlap
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in interests (how social contexts help or hinder anxiety, bullying,
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stereotyping and health) | |




Social psych vs personality psych differences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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personality psychologists seek to understand stable differences between
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, the individual, and social psychologists study how social factors affect
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most individuals regardless of their personality
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Social psych vs personality psych intersects - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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closely linked. they complement eachother
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Social psych and common sense - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"Knew it all
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along" phenomenon. many social psych findings seem like common
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sense, but at the end how do we know whats fact or myth...
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Over justification effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-based on motivation. if
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someone is already motivated to do something they like and then you
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give them a reward- they will actually do it less because they will feel as
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thought they are only doing it for a reward
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3 stages of resarch - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-developing ideas, refining
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ideas, testing ideas
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developing ideas steps (3) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Step 1- start asking
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questions. Step 2- search the literature. Step 3- begin shaping the idea
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into a hypothesis
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Conceptual variables - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-abstract, general
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constructs (ex. conformity, attraction, prejudice, love, social anxiety)
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